Neither the nation, in mass, nor the citizens, in class, lay claim to human rights.

All upper attributes--legislative, judicial, administrative--remain in the land-master's breast alone.

It is an absurdity, therefore, to argue with Grotius concerning the unknown antiquity of the Batavian republic.

The republic never existed at all till the sixteenth century, and was only born after long years of agony.

The democratic instincts of the ancient German savages were to survive in the breasts of their cultivated descendants, but an organized, civilized, republican polity had never existed.